River Mersey

Yeah, it

never went below the Mersey.

So as the city extended, they'd put another circuit in.

But when they got to sort of Northenden, Withington, they decided that was far enough.

the population which in eighteen o one was seventy seven thousand six hundred fifty three in eighteen thirty one amounted to one hundred sixty five thousand one hundred seventy five In the year ending June 1830, the number of vessels entered inwards and outwards amounted to 11,214, of which the tonnage was 1,411,904, and the customs duties, 3,123,758 pound, 8 shilling, 10 denaro.

to provide facilities for this immense traffic great exertions have been made and vast expense incurred in the construction of docks and the erection of warehouses the plan we have given shows their position and the following account extracted from lewis's topographical dictionary of england a valuable work recently completed in four quarto volumes affords such information as may render the plan perfectly intelligible For the security of the shipping in the port, and for greater facility of loading and unloading merchandise, an immense range of docks and warehouses, extending nearly two miles along the eastern bank of the river, the Mersey, has been constructed on a state of unparalleled magnificence, and forming one of those characteristics of commercial greatness in which this town is unrivaled.

The docks are of three kinds, the wet docks, the dry docks, and the graving docks.

The wet docks are chiefly for ships of great burden employed in the foreign trade, and which float in them at all states of the tide, the water being retained by gates.

To the north of the basin belonging to this dock, four spacious wet docks and a large graving dock, which latter is to be fitted up with patent slips, are at present in a state of rapid progress and, when completed, will probably terminate the range of docks on the north side of the town.

The Duke's Dock, between Salt House and the King's Dock, is a small dock belonging to the trustees of the Lake Duke of Bridgewater for the use of his flats with commodious warehouses.

The several carriers by water have also convenient basins on the river for the use of their barges with quays for loading and unloading their goods, and the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company have a small dock called the manchester dock for the flats employed in that extensive trade and for the transport to this town of the production of cheshire and the adjoining counties the whole range of the docks when the northern and southern additions are completed will be two miles and eight hundred and twenty yards in length spacious as they are they are still considered inadequate to the increasing commerce of the port and measures are in contemplation for their further extension The sums expended in the formation of these docks amount to more than two million sterling, for clearing them from the accumulation of silt brought in by the tide.

A dredging machine, worked by a steam engine of ten horsepower, is in constant operation, by which fifty tons per hour are raised into barges and deposited where it may be washed away by the current of the river.

They were expected to develop a buoyancy beyond everything that had yet been seen, and American naval officers awaited their arrival on the scene of activity with an interest as great as ours.

The Banshee was ready for sea early in 1863, and I had the satisfaction of finding myself steaming down the Mersey in the first steel vessel that ever crossed the Atlantic.

Like most first attempts, however, she was far from a success, and by the time we reached Queenstown she had betrayed serious defects.

To begin with, the speed she developed was extremely disappointing.

In the days before railways, such a canal as this was an engineering work of the very first importance.

It was to connect the Mersey, the Dee, and the Severn, and it passed over ground which rendered necessary some immense aqueducts on a scale never before attempted by British engineers.

Even in our own time, every traveler by the Great Western Line between Chester and Shrewsbury must have observed on his right two magnificent ranges as high arches, which are as noticeable now as ever for their boldness, their magnitude, and their exquisite construction.

The first of these mighty archways is the Pontcysllau Aqueduct, which carries the Ellesmere Canal across the wide valley of the Dee, known as the Vale of Llangollen.

I like the water.

I've been walking by, having a jog by the Mersey.

It's like the Thames.

I love walking by water and all that.

It's really interesting.

It's right on the waterfront on the Mersey.

It spans a dock.

So it's two long brick, light coloured brick buildings.

The parish church is at Asbury, a mile off.

Stoppard upon Mersey, a six miles from Manchester.

The parish church is in the town.

Mr. Waring is called there Baron of Stoppard, for one of the Waring's of Chestershire married one Stoppard Baron of Stoppard daughter, and hereabout Henry IV days.

Biston Castle, builded or re-edified by Ranulf, Earl of Chester.

Halton Castle, builded by Randall, Earl of Chester.

It standeth about the side of Mersey within a mile of his bank, and within a mile of Runcorn, now a poor townlet by a salt creep.

Shotwick in Wirral.